links now works fine; mouse doesn't?

Jonathan Hutchins hutchins at tarcanfel.org
Tue Nov 25 15:45:52 CST 2003


On Tuesday 25 November 2003 08:44 am, Brian Densmore wrote:

> I have found that gpm and X don't play nice together.
> I remember reading somewhere to unload gpm before launching X.
> Maybe they have fixed that, but I know it used to be an issue.
> Anyway, logic dictates only one program can have physical
> control of the mouse at a time.

Since the mouse is a read-only device, it would seem that multiple programs 
could have access to it, but I seem to recall that problem too.  Leo's not 
running X when he's having the problem, but it could be that links doesn't 
want to share with gpm.




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